Titan Books Collects Unpublished Disenchantment Comics

Bongo Comics, Matt Groening’s publishing house that mainly printed Simpsons and Futurama material (and assisted Stephen Hillenburg in the Spongebob Comics series), went out of business in 2018, and most people aren’t aware what a loss that truly was. With the Hollywood writer’s strike in full swing we’re hearing a lot of gripes about the studio system. Well, I have yet to hear a single complaint from a former worker about Bongo. It was pretty much the only publisher that WASN’T a profits-first, writers-last organization.

A year after Bongo folded, Groening’s “Disenchantment” started running on Netflix, but due to the former problem this meant Groening couldn’t print comics based on his new cartoon. Or could he? Apparently he paid to have them made anyway, and debuted the first two issues at San Diego Comic-Con under a new publishing imprint called “Bapper Books.” Those were the only two issues of anything Bapper Books would print. It was unknown what happened to the other 500-plus pages (not an exaggeration) of the Disenchantment comic that were produced.

But someone’s finally agreed to dig them out and do something with them. Titan Books will be printing the previously unforeseen material in two volumes called “Disenchantment: Untold Tales.” Six pages have been released by Titan to prove the comic’s existence, and you can check them out below. The first volume will be released in September.

The source we got this info from also claims there’s a Season 5 of Disenchantment in production, but we’ll believe that when we see it.